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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1976-04-01

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1976-04-01, page 01

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VOL. 54 NO. 14
APRIL 1,1976-NISAN 1'
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US. Vetoes Resolution Condemning Israel; Scranton Speech Signifies No Policy Change
First Vote A 'No'
_ A.
UNITED NATIONS -- William W. Scranton, the new U.S^Ambassador to the United Nations, casts his first
-vote iin the .Security Council against allowing, the Palestine Liberation Organization (P^O) Jo
i participate in the Council debate on anti-Israeli unrest in the" occupied West Bank. His was the lone dissenting vote as the Council allowed PLO participation by a vote -
4rf 11 to 1 with 3 abstentions. ' r '
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UNITED NATIONS (WNS) — A resolution of the United Nations Security Council which deplored Is¬ raeli policies in Jerusalem and thfr administered areas was vetoed by the United States.
The vote on the resolution followed four days of dis¬ cussions in which Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization engaged in direct debate for the first time. The 14 to 1 vote fol¬ lowed a session -called by Libya and Pakistan, the Is-
Jamic members of< the Council, --over the unrest which has flared in East
"Jerusalem, and the West Bank in recent weeks. _ j; ., William M. Scrahton, the
new U.S. Ambassador to the UN, called the resolution unbalanced. , The draft resolution had been -worked out by third world members of the Council in talks with Arab and other Islamic countries, and with the Com¬ munist powers. The sponsors were, Benin, Guyana, Panama, Pakistan and Tan¬ zania. Also voting for it were
Libya, Britain, 'China, France, Italy, Japan, Rumania, the Soviet Union and Sweden.
The resolution deplored ' Israel's' 'failure to put a stop to actions and policies tending to change the status of the city of Jerusalem." It called on Israel to refrain from actions against Arab residents of the adminis-
Scranton Says Settlement Of Territories Is Obstacle To Peace In The Middle East
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'UMTEDNATIONS (jtA) *' -^William Scranton, the new United States Ambassador ; to the United Nations, said ' Marr a ■ that Jewish settle¬ ments , jn Israeli-occupied territories'were an obstacle
- , to negotiations for peace in -;' the Middle East. Scrariton's_ 1' statement, his first major
address at the UN, was
made during the second day
. of the Security Council meet-
"' ing on the turmoil' in the West' Bank and East Jem-' „ salem. Although'he stressed'
. that"1ie was restating long- term United States policy,
' this was the first time the U.S,. had publicly stated at the UN any objections to -Jewish settlement, in the occupied territories. Some observers saw (his as a shift in JJ.ST'policy, if not in sub¬ stance ihen at least in tone.
- It'was recalled that when Scranton presented his,
, credentials last weekl to
Seirefary General- Kurt
" ""Waldheim he told a press
. conference afterwards that
the U.S,;tfanted to work well
-wrth ,the Arab countries "I
. think yQu will find I am very"
' open and ready to work with
, prejudiced the'^outcpme^of future negotiations;between^ the parties oh the.location of
'the borders of states in the Middle East, - Indeed,, the presence of these'-settle¬ ments is seen by myigovern-,. ment as an obstacle to the success of the negotiations for a-just and final peace between Israel and its neigh¬ bors."' Scranton, in criti¬ cizing the settlements in occupied territories, said
' "Unilateral acts have been taken that inflame the public." c
However, Scranton re¬ jected charges by the Arabs of religious discrimination by Israel on the West Bank and in Jerusalem. "Israel's punctilious administration of
Klutznick Suggests Revision Of Jewish Community Structures
PRINCETON, N.J. (JTA) — A proposal that the Amer¬ ican Jewish community explore ways of revising its community' structures was
' advanced here by Philip M. Klutznick, a former pres¬ ident'of B'nai B'rith and now chairman of the World
- Jewish Congress' Governing Council- klutznick told a
-, nftfeab. *H'a»i (H ilnnFoMirioo
relationships between Israel and the USSR must inevi¬ tably have a determining effect on Soviet attitudes and reactions to the issues of Soviet Jewry. The three-day" conference, one of a series of B'nai B'rith bicentennial year programs^ was devoted to the Jewish community's "unfinished agenda." Its 150 some
^L^J^rjusMemY^^tetjJKrith Sonfererice of -' participants included soi
'hair greatly1 mjifenrizea meV^ewM'^^demicians^ai^d, '2*leadiiigJewishscholars tensions," he^aid:-"'W^'are -' laymen' that present fepre* ■ ■ '■ " 1-i —
lered territories, to respect the inviolability of the holy
. places and slop alleged ex¬ propriation of Arab land and
■ the creation of Israeli settle¬ ments on such land.
Prior to his veto vote, Scranton said the resolution did not correspond to the reality of the situation in Israeli-held 'territory. He said it was wrong to charge that Israel intended to change the religious charac¬ ter of Jerusalem. On the con-
Jlrary, Scranton" said, "Israel's administration of the holy places in Jerusalem has literally and actively minimized tensions "
He also said the United Slates was seeking to "regain momentum' in the , negotiating process to reach peace in the Middle East" and that the draft resolution "would not help" such efforts.
Chaim Herzog, Israel's'
ambassador^ lauded the veto
and called it "an effort to
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gratified that the Supreme Court of Israel has upheld the Israeli government's position" against allowing Jewish prayer.on theTemple Mount, On the question of Jerusalem, Scranton de¬ clared: "the United States position could not be clearer. Since 1967 we have restated here .. .,and to the govern¬ ment of Israel that the future of Jerusalem will be deter¬ mined only through the instruments of negotiation, agreement- and accom¬ modation. Unilateral at¬ tempts to predetermine that future have no standing."
Jewish Groups Criticize 60 Minutes Syrian Jewry Report
NEW YORK (WNS) - The -American Jewish Congress and the Committee for Rescue of Syrian Jewry Ijave denounced Mike Wallace's 1 follow-up report on Syrian Jewry broadcast on CBS-
-_.. „„,.. „ -,_-.. . .T- TV's ",60Minutes" program.
the Arab countries, as I have T/he' Rescue. Committee has r ^ "always been," he said. The-* til'"i « «n"»nias™* »>'^ ♦»«» 1 ' Israeli Mission to the UN had
1
)
no comment-on Seranton's- statements
Quoting from the Geneva Convention, Scranton said: "Clearly then, _ substantial resettlement of' the Israelis civilian population in' occu¬ pied'- territories^ ^infcluding 'East Jerusalem^"is illegal under the convention and cannot be considered to have
filed a., complaint wtyh the National News Council saying that """Wallace has once again failed ,to portray the true picture of the suffer¬ ings of the 4500 Jews forced to remain in Syria." Rabbi Joseph Harari,.., the. com¬ mittee's executive director, said Wallace's comments showed "more concern'' with defending the'ordinal broadcast on Syrian Je_wry
13 months,ago which was condemned by many Jewish organizations as a "distortion
.of facts. H&rari said Wallace1' repeated 'his earlier slate-
■ment that ''Jews are sus¬ pected as a possible' fifth column."" Harari said Wallace went even further when he declared that ''most governments, even our own, would.consider these people > as potentially dangerous to ' the national sequrity.''
Rabbi Arthur 'Hertzberg," president of the AJCongress, charge'd that Wallace's followup program sought "to support.. .claims of Syria's' - benevolent treatment'-' _ of-'- Jews^ He said the~prdgramJ
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sentative bodies, "are not always adequately staffed or provided with the capacity to -study a problem before acting on it." He suggested "reexaminations of present institutions" to determine ways of better reflecting a Jewish community con¬ sensus on political issues. Klutznick stressed that he " was emphasizing studies "in light of our changing needs," but was not advocating "abandoning what now exists" until the validity of any proposed change had been adequately surveyed.
Asked by a member Of the' audience whether the time had come to consider ire- establishment of a formal¬ ized representative assembly such as the Amer¬ ican Jewish Conference that existed briefly in the" post- World War II era, Klutsmick replied that any judgment * would bepremdture. "There may be a need for creating a ' new structure or for 'strengthening and broad- ' ening the purposes of exist¬ ing'ones," he said. *Any change, he added, "must^ take into account the Volun¬ tary character of Jewish * communal life.'' Klutznick-- illustrated his thesis by " citing —-and questioning — , the advisability of separate i, national "roof organiza¬ tions" that now deal respec¬ tively with Jewish concerns ' relating to Israel and Soviet Jewry. The two matters, he declared, have become- "inextricably' linked as a -singlejwlitical issue" in that
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WASHINGTON (WNS) - George Bush, director or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been asked by the Senate Select Committee studying U.S. intelli¬ gence activities, to provide a "full report" on the CIA "leak" alleging Israel has 10 to 20 nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Committee's chairman, Sen. Frank Church(D. Idaho) said in a television interview'that the remark on the Israeli weapons was the "biggest goof in the way of leaks that I can imagine, biggest that I have ever seen in Washington." Church, a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, called on
- President Ford to look into the "leak," saying, "I have not even heard of a reprimand from the President." Meanwhile, Arthur Kranish, the science writer who reported'that a "senior" CIA official said Israel had 10 - to 20 nuclear weapons "ready and available for use",
' said he -was asked to resign from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics whose members including Kranish attended the luncheon where they got the CIA briefing. Kranish said he is considering "legal action" against the CIA but would not elaborate. In Jerusalem, Premier Yitzhak Rabin told his Cabinet that Israel "is not a nuclear power and will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons in the Mideast" • - '
WASHINGTON (WNS) — A proposal that the General Electric Company's board .of directors, "provide a full written report to the shareholders" on the company's ^'policy toward compliance, tacit or "«
' - overt, with the demands of the Arab boycott" is being opposed by the board. The proposal was submitted by Irene Weinberg, who owns 20 shares of GE stock, for consideration at'the annual meeting of GE in Kansas City, Mo. inApnl. Both Kleinberg}s proposal and the board's opposition -were published in the company's notice of the meeting. The board told shareholders that "your company lias long and substantial commercial relations with all the countries of the Middle East, i including Israel and the Arab countries." The directors
> said the proposal "is misdirected and counter- - productive*" The American Jewish Congress which u
- has been seeking a statement on the boycott from - major U.S.''companies said Weinberg is a member of the AJCongress. " (■-*. ,
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hi.
»
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ll
!
ohioje
LI. ...
;^ol»;'o»' 43"ari
BRAftY VELWA
OHIO HISTO« 1CAL SOCI£*y
Avr,
J i :;
EXOH
ZJlAw Strv'ng Cplumbus and Central Ohio Jewish' torntnunHy for Over 50 Ycart >S7A^
VOL. 54 NO. 14
APRIL 1,1976-NISAN 1'
Pf MtM t»JMMf ««,>
US. Vetoes Resolution Condemning Israel; Scranton Speech Signifies No Policy Change
First Vote A 'No'
_ A.
UNITED NATIONS -- William W. Scranton, the new U.S^Ambassador to the United Nations, casts his first
-vote iin the .Security Council against allowing, the Palestine Liberation Organization (P^O) Jo
i participate in the Council debate on anti-Israeli unrest in the" occupied West Bank. His was the lone dissenting vote as the Council allowed PLO participation by a vote -
4rf 11 to 1 with 3 abstentions. ' r '
, ' -. ii ' —N^ELIGIOU^NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
UNITED NATIONS (WNS) — A resolution of the United Nations Security Council which deplored Is¬ raeli policies in Jerusalem and thfr administered areas was vetoed by the United States.
The vote on the resolution followed four days of dis¬ cussions in which Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization engaged in direct debate for the first time. The 14 to 1 vote fol¬ lowed a session -called by Libya and Pakistan, the Is-
Jamic members of< the Council, --over the unrest which has flared in East
"Jerusalem, and the West Bank in recent weeks. _ j; ., William M. Scrahton, the
new U.S. Ambassador to the UN, called the resolution unbalanced. , The draft resolution had been -worked out by third world members of the Council in talks with Arab and other Islamic countries, and with the Com¬ munist powers. The sponsors were, Benin, Guyana, Panama, Pakistan and Tan¬ zania. Also voting for it were
Libya, Britain, 'China, France, Italy, Japan, Rumania, the Soviet Union and Sweden.
The resolution deplored ' Israel's' 'failure to put a stop to actions and policies tending to change the status of the city of Jerusalem." It called on Israel to refrain from actions against Arab residents of the adminis-
Scranton Says Settlement Of Territories Is Obstacle To Peace In The Middle East
" v ' ByDtfvidFricdiMn „,
'UMTEDNATIONS (jtA) *' -^William Scranton, the new United States Ambassador ; to the United Nations, said ' Marr a ■ that Jewish settle¬ ments , jn Israeli-occupied territories'were an obstacle
- , to negotiations for peace in -;' the Middle East. Scrariton's_ 1' statement, his first major
address at the UN, was
made during the second day
. of the Security Council meet-
"' ing on the turmoil' in the West' Bank and East Jem-' „ salem. Although'he stressed'
. that"1ie was restating long- term United States policy,
' this was the first time the U.S,. had publicly stated at the UN any objections to -Jewish settlement, in the occupied territories. Some observers saw (his as a shift in JJ.ST'policy, if not in sub¬ stance ihen at least in tone.
- It'was recalled that when Scranton presented his,
, credentials last weekl to
Seirefary General- Kurt
" ""Waldheim he told a press
. conference afterwards that
the U.S,;tfanted to work well
-wrth ,the Arab countries "I
. think yQu will find I am very"
' open and ready to work with
, prejudiced the'^outcpme^of future negotiations;between^ the parties oh the.location of
'the borders of states in the Middle East, - Indeed,, the presence of these'-settle¬ ments is seen by myigovern-,. ment as an obstacle to the success of the negotiations for a-just and final peace between Israel and its neigh¬ bors."' Scranton, in criti¬ cizing the settlements in occupied territories, said
' "Unilateral acts have been taken that inflame the public." c
However, Scranton re¬ jected charges by the Arabs of religious discrimination by Israel on the West Bank and in Jerusalem. "Israel's punctilious administration of
Klutznick Suggests Revision Of Jewish Community Structures
PRINCETON, N.J. (JTA) — A proposal that the Amer¬ ican Jewish community explore ways of revising its community' structures was
' advanced here by Philip M. Klutznick, a former pres¬ ident'of B'nai B'rith and now chairman of the World
- Jewish Congress' Governing Council- klutznick told a
-, nftfeab. *H'a»i (H ilnnFoMirioo
relationships between Israel and the USSR must inevi¬ tably have a determining effect on Soviet attitudes and reactions to the issues of Soviet Jewry. The three-day" conference, one of a series of B'nai B'rith bicentennial year programs^ was devoted to the Jewish community's "unfinished agenda." Its 150 some
^L^J^rjusMemY^^tetjJKrith Sonfererice of -' participants included soi
'hair greatly1 mjifenrizea meV^ewM'^^demicians^ai^d, '2*leadiiigJewishscholars tensions," he^aid:-"'W^'are -' laymen' that present fepre* ■ ■ '■ " 1-i —
lered territories, to respect the inviolability of the holy
. places and slop alleged ex¬ propriation of Arab land and
■ the creation of Israeli settle¬ ments on such land.
Prior to his veto vote, Scranton said the resolution did not correspond to the reality of the situation in Israeli-held 'territory. He said it was wrong to charge that Israel intended to change the religious charac¬ ter of Jerusalem. On the con-
Jlrary, Scranton" said, "Israel's administration of the holy places in Jerusalem has literally and actively minimized tensions "
He also said the United Slates was seeking to "regain momentum' in the , negotiating process to reach peace in the Middle East" and that the draft resolution "would not help" such efforts.
Chaim Herzog, Israel's'
ambassador^ lauded the veto
and called it "an effort to
(contintmooHPACEw
gratified that the Supreme Court of Israel has upheld the Israeli government's position" against allowing Jewish prayer.on theTemple Mount, On the question of Jerusalem, Scranton de¬ clared: "the United States position could not be clearer. Since 1967 we have restated here .. .,and to the govern¬ ment of Israel that the future of Jerusalem will be deter¬ mined only through the instruments of negotiation, agreement- and accom¬ modation. Unilateral at¬ tempts to predetermine that future have no standing."
Jewish Groups Criticize 60 Minutes Syrian Jewry Report
NEW YORK (WNS) - The -American Jewish Congress and the Committee for Rescue of Syrian Jewry Ijave denounced Mike Wallace's 1 follow-up report on Syrian Jewry broadcast on CBS-
-_.. „„,.. „ -,_-.. . .T- TV's ",60Minutes" program.
the Arab countries, as I have T/he' Rescue. Committee has r ^ "always been," he said. The-* til'"i « «n"»nias™* »>'^ ♦»«» 1 ' Israeli Mission to the UN had
1
)
no comment-on Seranton's- statements
Quoting from the Geneva Convention, Scranton said: "Clearly then, _ substantial resettlement of' the Israelis civilian population in' occu¬ pied'- territories^ ^infcluding 'East Jerusalem^"is illegal under the convention and cannot be considered to have
filed a., complaint wtyh the National News Council saying that """Wallace has once again failed ,to portray the true picture of the suffer¬ ings of the 4500 Jews forced to remain in Syria." Rabbi Joseph Harari,.., the. com¬ mittee's executive director, said Wallace's comments showed "more concern'' with defending the'ordinal broadcast on Syrian Je_wry
13 months,ago which was condemned by many Jewish organizations as a "distortion
.of facts. H&rari said Wallace1' repeated 'his earlier slate-
■ment that ''Jews are sus¬ pected as a possible' fifth column."" Harari said Wallace went even further when he declared that ''most governments, even our own, would.consider these people > as potentially dangerous to ' the national sequrity.''
Rabbi Arthur 'Hertzberg," president of the AJCongress, charge'd that Wallace's followup program sought "to support.. .claims of Syria's' - benevolent treatment'-' _ of-'- Jews^ He said the~prdgramJ
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sentative bodies, "are not always adequately staffed or provided with the capacity to -study a problem before acting on it." He suggested "reexaminations of present institutions" to determine ways of better reflecting a Jewish community con¬ sensus on political issues. Klutznick stressed that he " was emphasizing studies "in light of our changing needs," but was not advocating "abandoning what now exists" until the validity of any proposed change had been adequately surveyed.
Asked by a member Of the' audience whether the time had come to consider ire- establishment of a formal¬ ized representative assembly such as the Amer¬ ican Jewish Conference that existed briefly in the" post- World War II era, Klutsmick replied that any judgment * would bepremdture. "There may be a need for creating a ' new structure or for 'strengthening and broad- ' ening the purposes of exist¬ ing'ones," he said. *Any change, he added, "must^ take into account the Volun¬ tary character of Jewish * communal life.'' Klutznick-- illustrated his thesis by " citing —-and questioning — , the advisability of separate i, national "roof organiza¬ tions" that now deal respec¬ tively with Jewish concerns ' relating to Israel and Soviet Jewry. The two matters, he declared, have become- "inextricably' linked as a -singlejwlitical issue" in that
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!"■*■
> "V- ' * ^ V }>
111 111
WASHINGTON (WNS) - George Bush, director or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been asked by the Senate Select Committee studying U.S. intelli¬ gence activities, to provide a "full report" on the CIA "leak" alleging Israel has 10 to 20 nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Committee's chairman, Sen. Frank Church(D. Idaho) said in a television interview'that the remark on the Israeli weapons was the "biggest goof in the way of leaks that I can imagine, biggest that I have ever seen in Washington." Church, a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, called on
- President Ford to look into the "leak," saying, "I have not even heard of a reprimand from the President." Meanwhile, Arthur Kranish, the science writer who reported'that a "senior" CIA official said Israel had 10 - to 20 nuclear weapons "ready and available for use",
' said he -was asked to resign from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics whose members including Kranish attended the luncheon where they got the CIA briefing. Kranish said he is considering "legal action" against the CIA but would not elaborate. In Jerusalem, Premier Yitzhak Rabin told his Cabinet that Israel "is not a nuclear power and will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons in the Mideast" • - '
WASHINGTON (WNS) — A proposal that the General Electric Company's board .of directors, "provide a full written report to the shareholders" on the company's ^'policy toward compliance, tacit or "«
' - overt, with the demands of the Arab boycott" is being opposed by the board. The proposal was submitted by Irene Weinberg, who owns 20 shares of GE stock, for consideration at'the annual meeting of GE in Kansas City, Mo. inApnl. Both Kleinberg}s proposal and the board's opposition -were published in the company's notice of the meeting. The board told shareholders that "your company lias long and substantial commercial relations with all the countries of the Middle East, i including Israel and the Arab countries." The directors
> said the proposal "is misdirected and counter- - productive*" The American Jewish Congress which u
- has been seeking a statement on the boycott from - major U.S.''companies said Weinberg is a member of the AJCongress. " (■-*. ,
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